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These Michif speakers have been fighting their whole lives to save a dying language
Métis Nation-Saskatchewan that includes elders, like Pelletier, aims to teach school children across Saskatchewan the Michif language and culture to ensure it isn’t lost — but shared with future generations to come.Of all the things Pelletier says she learned during those seemingly simple times, the most important was who she is.Pelletier has been spending her later years striving to foster the sense of community she knew as a young girl.In the 1970s, while settling into life in Regina, she realized how unique her upbringing was.All around her, the colonial disruptions and legacies of assimilation were too close for comfort as she struggled to find others like her.“When I made up my mind to search for my culture and do something about it, I